Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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stink

/stɪŋk/ verb, noun, adjective

Forms stinks stinking stank stunk

  1. verb (intransitive) To have a strong bad smell.
  2. verb (intransitive, stative, informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. “That movie stinks. I didn't even stay for the end.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin. “Something stinks about the politician's excuses.”
  4. verb (transitive) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
  5. noun A strong bad smell.
  6. noun (informal) A complaint or objection. “If you don't make a stink about the problem, nothing will be done.”
  7. adjective (slang, New Zealand) Bad; inferior; worthless. “The concert was stink. / That was a stink concert.”
  8. adjective (Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica) Bad-smelling, stinky.

Synonyms

pong reek suck blow be fishy fetor odour odor smell stench malodor malodour foetor mephitis

Etymology

From Middle English stinken, from Old English stincan, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-, *stegʷ- (“to push, thrust, strike”). Cognate with West Frisian stjonke (“to stink”), Dutch stinken (“to stink”), German stinken (“to stink”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk stinke (“to stink”), Swedish stinka (“to stink”), Icelandic stökkva (“to spring, leap, jump”).
Compare typologically Russian рази́ть (razítʹ).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
  2. verb To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
  3. noun A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench. Fire stink. See under Fire.

Etymology [AS. stinkan to have a smell (whether good or bad); akin to OHG. stinchan, G. & D. stinken to stink; of uncertain origin; cf. Icel. stökkva to leap, to spring, Goth. stigqan to push, strike, or Gr. Stench.]

Etymology [AS. stinc.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “stink”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “stink” (best matches first).